Went up to London on Thursday (March 1st) to collect visas.

I was about 20th in line so I didn't get inside till nearly 2:30pm.

I took my time and checked that all the birth dates and stuff were correct. Once you leave and the doors close at 3:pm there is no going back!!

Just a week till we go now.

I have booked hire car, travel insurance, flightlink coach to and from Gatwick.

Now I am trying to sort out everything for landing. I have made a goods to follow list on a spreadsheet, but as we are not actually moving at this time I have tried to include everyting we might take as you can include things on the goods to follow that you don't take but you can't take things you didn't include.

Also need to find out how we will prove proof of funds. Our capital has been moving in and out of our account on a weekly basis . It goes into a high interest account every Monday and is put back into our current account on a Friday plus the interest.

This has been good as it gives us the flexibility to get at our Money quickly if the exchange rates tempts us to change it into $cad. 

We will have to change some into $ on Monday as we will need some when we open our bank account on the 13th March.

Moneycorp will email us proof of what they are holding for us but I don't know if this will be acceptable to immigration when we land??

We may just have to leave the other money in our Current account until we return so that we can get a printout from an ATM at Gatwick the day we fly.

It's all very confusing.